My dueling Skills and other stuff

[Skull]

Hey, Rftigers wanted to see this so this is mainly for him, but other people can check it out and post here.

Here I will tell about my dueling skills, and a few of my decks, you can also find my decks in the deck garage.

I play in many tournaments and normally place very well, I have only gotten 1st 22 times and I don't know how many tournaments I've played in. When I use to play in California, I lived only a couple miles away from where the regionals were always held, so I played in them, I usualy placed an average of 14th place, but I also wasn't as good then.

Well My main deck is a burn deck, I know every weekness to it, but I can't reveal that to anybody and if you know them, don't tell anyone, I would rather if they found that out.

My secondary deck is a Dark/Fiend deck, you can also find it in the deck garage.

I play on YVD and on there my name is Scarthman, I will play almost anybody who PM's me on there. There are a few people on there that are very good duelist's, like Slien, Sun, Stewie, and blue dragon.

I have a lot of trading cards and I keep them on 2 trading books, many of my cards overlap others because I have so many, I have over 250 rares and over 1000 commons.

When I play in tournaments, I put all of my stuff in a tackle bag, here is a list of all the stuff I bring with me:
2 decks
3 different kinds of cases
2 notebooks
1 calculator
3 rulebooks
3 gamemats
1 list of cards I need
1 waterbottle
2 dice
15 coins
2 books of trading cards


When I go to tournaments, there are normally 40 people in the local tournaments and about 500 in the regionals.



Well that's all I can think of right now, if you have any questions, just ask.

[lightningbolt1312]

jeez! that a lot of stuff to carry! lol. I have never been to an actual tournament! what is it like?

[GryphonDarkFalcon]

well the tournaments around hee are pretty much just a series of 3 duels, for 1 match, the they just continue until there is one left, and they always check urdecks to make sure ur not cheatin

[lightningbolt1312]

sounds fun! What do you guys get if you win?

[sonofcharizard]

Thats really cool. I actually just started going to tournaments myself. Ive played in like 5 and havent won yet however I did make it to the finals twice. For us its like 3 dollar entry fee and you get a pack whether u win or lose.

The system is like a ladder and at the end of the month whosever at the top gets a pot of money and a box of cards.

Theres usually around 30-35 people that play.

[Skull]

lightningbolt1312 said:

sounds fun! What do you guys get if you win?

well when I go to tournaments, it is a $5 entry fee and you get one tournament pack, and depending on how many people are there, you get packs for the placings you get, I got 1st a lot of times and I usually get 4-7 packs depending on the amount of people.

[lightningbolt1312]

thats awesome! I wish I had tournys by my house. How can you find the closest one?

[Skull]

go to the official yugioh website and go to the tournament store locator, then it will say what you need to do, if you need the URL, PM me.

[lightningbolt1312]

sweet, thanks a lot, I just found a place that is less than 20 miles away! yay! hopefully I can bike there! Thanks scarthman! =)
ps. When you duel, do you shuffle your cards in your hand fequently, so as to make it harder for your opponent pick out a certain card?

[Skull]

well what I do, Is I set up all and any combos I might have next to eachother in my deck, then I act like I'm shuffling but I'm really not, then I hand my deck to my opponent for him/her to shuffle, you will then get your opponents deck to shuffle, take your opponents deck and then make the deck into 2 halves, try to make them equal, then put the 2 halves together by the long side and push them together to break apart any combos, then shuffle a little bit, be very careful to not bend your opponents cards, or harm then in any way, a lot of people are very picky that they want their cards in mint condition. then hand your opponent's deck back, and you will get yours back, then you duel, PM me and tell me how you did, you should call the place first to see if you need reservations and get all the information before getting into a tournament.

[lightningbolt1312]

sweet! ALthouh, isn't that sorta cheating what you said to do with your deck?

[Skull]

well yah, but as long as you don't get caught, you will be ok.

[lightningbolt1312]

well I am not much for cheating, but I will certainly do that with there decks! =) Thanks for the help! =)

[Skull]

well it's not cheating if you take the first few cards at the top or bottom of your deck and put them throught your deck, that would be considered a shuffle, not a very good one, but it's still a shuffle.

[lightningbolt1312]

i dunno, I like using complete luck where I have not set up my deck at all, and the fun is trying to make new combos w/ the cards in your hand. Thats my opinion, and I probably will loose all the tournament games because of that! =) lol, oh well!